. A dictionary of birds . roup so named of Nitzsch in 1820 {DeutscheArchiv fur Phjsiol. vi. p. 253) to include the genera Sturnus, Oriolus,Lanius, Muscicapa, Ampelis, Hirunclo, Turdus, Accentor, Sylvia, Mota-cilla, Anthus, Alauda, Par us, Sitta, Certhia (with Ticliodroma), ^ Voyages du Baron de la Hontan dans VAmerique seftentrionale, ed. 2,Amsterdam : 1705, vol. i. pp. 93, 94. In the first edition, published at TheHague in 1703, the passage, less explicit in details but to the same effect, is atp. 80. The authors letter, describing the circumstance, is dated May 1687. ^ There are several reco
. A dictionary of birds . roup so named of Nitzsch in 1820 {DeutscheArchiv fur Phjsiol. vi. p. 253) to include the genera Sturnus, Oriolus,Lanius, Muscicapa, Ampelis, Hirunclo, Turdus, Accentor, Sylvia, Mota-cilla, Anthus, Alauda, Par us, Sitta, Certhia (with Ticliodroma), ^ Voyages du Baron de la Hontan dans VAmerique seftentrionale, ed. 2,Amsterdam : 1705, vol. i. pp. 93, 94. In the first edition, published at TheHague in 1703, the passage, less explicit in details but to the same effect, is atp. 80. The authors letter, describing the circumstance, is dated May 1687. ^ There are several records of the occurrence in Britain of this Pigeon, but inmost cases the birds noticed cannot be supposed to have found their own wayhither. One, which was shot in Fife in 1825, may, however, have crossed theAtlantic imassisted by man. ^ The names Passeriformes and lately even Passeridse (!) have been in someinstances employed ; with very slight or no modification they signify the samething as Passerine. PASSERINI—PA TELLA. Emberiza, Fringilla, Loxia, Cindus (T) and Corviis—thus differingsomewhat from Johannes Miillers application of the cognate term PASSERINI (Jhhandl K AJcacl. Berlin, Phys. Kl. 1847, ), which he regarded as equivalent to the Order Insessores(as it was then called), separating its members into PasseriniPoLYMYODi (or OsciNEs), Tracheophones and PicARii, thoughcautiously declaring these to be not so much the names of groups,but as merely indicating different laryngeal formations. PASTOR, Temmincks generic name in 1815 for a beautifulbird, the Turdus roseus of Linnseus, very commonly known in Eng-lish as the Rose-coloured Pastor, one of the Sturnidx (Starling),which is not an infrequent visitor to the British Islands. It is a bird of most irregular and erratichabits—a vast horde suddenly arriv-ing at some place to which it mayhave hitherto been a stranger, andat once making a settlement there,leaving it wholly deserted so soonPastor. (After Swainson.) as
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